Film

The Funhouse Massacre

Name: The Funhouse Massacre
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 2015
Cast: Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson, Matt Angel, Chasty Ballesteros

A low-budget slasher-comedy where escaped asylum inmates crash a Halloween funhouse and turn it into actual slaughter. It's gory, silly, and cheap in the best possible way—the kind of film that knows exactly what it is and leans hard into the absurdity. For people who find genuine scares boring but theatrical violence hilarious.

TMDb rating

2.6

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy cheerfully grisly slasher comedy that plays its carnage for laughs, and you don't mind your jokes being as nasty as the kills.

Skip it if the humour is broad and the characters may feel thin, so if you want scares that build slowly or sharp, witty comedy, this will likely feel crude.

What it asks of you: Its shape is episodic: brisk bursts of set-piece kills and cheap laughs, one short sitting of about ninety minutes, with little slow build between them.

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